Texans hire former Rice assistant, promote two other coaches

Dan Hammerschmidt, a long-time college assistant coach, was hired as an offensive assistant. He was an assistant at Colorado State for 19 years and coached James Casey at Rice in 2008.

Two members of Gary Kubiak’s staff were promoted.

Jim Ryan was promoted to assistant offensive line coach. He worked with offensive line coach John Benton last season. He moves up a spot to replace Frank Pollack, who was hired as Oakland’s offensive line coach.

Marc Lubick, who’s in his fifth season with the Texans, was elevated to assistant receivers coach.

Last week, the Texans hired Karl Dorrell as quarterbacks coach to replace Greg Knapp, who is Oakland’s new offensive coordinator.